The ideas in All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low Trust World by Seth Godin have elected a president, grown nonprofit causes, created billionaires, and fueled movements. They’ve also led to great jobs, fun dates, and more than a few interactions that mattered.

Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich – And Why Most Don’t by Donald Trump & Robert Kiyosaki about entrepreneurs, and what makes entrepreneurs different. Midas Touch is an ebook for those people who are already entrepreneurs or for those who would like to be

If you don’t use this fortune of information to create such ideas, you waste it. In short, there’s never been a time in all of history when ideas were so needed or so valuable. How to Get Ideas by Jack Foster & illustrated by Larry Corby contains most of what I told my students about ideas.

The Macintosh Way by Guy Kawasaki is about doing the right thing and doing things right. It is meant for dreamers, revolutionaries, Macintosh aficionados, and all the people who want to learn about the Macintosh Way.

The Master Key teaches right principles, and suggests methods for making a practical application of the principles; in that it differs from every other course of study. It teaches that the only possible value which can attach to any principle is in its application

A rapid-fire tour of ‘spaces’ large, small, mental, physical, and other wise … Where Good Ideas Come From may be the ultimate distillation of his thinking on these issues. . . . One admires the intellectual athleticism of Johnson’s maneuvers here.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking By Susan Cain is an informative, well-researched ebook on the power of quietness and the virtues of having a rich inner life. It dispels the myth that you have to be extroverted to be happy and successful.

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology By Shawn Achor is a must-read for everyone trying to excel in a world of increasing workloads, stress, and negativity, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work but also in life.

That The BOX: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller by Marc Levinson came to be is a tribute to the work of the many dedicated archivists and librarians who helped me identify extant materials in collections that researchers rarely look at, as well as to private individuals who combed their own files for important records.